Cooking utensil



C F CULLEN COOKING UTENSILIv Filed Sept. 1.8. 1925 IIN 20 lll IH||| May 31 1927.

Patented May 31 i927.

4uN-lTi-:zb.STATES GATHERINEF. GUILLEN, F NEW `YORIK,`1\T. Y.

cooxINe UTENsIL.

Application led September 18, 1925. Serial No. 57,159.

This invention relates more-particularly to a class of culinary articles.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a utensil designed to be employed 5 for boiling, steaming and stewin food products, such as the preparation o soups and i the cookin of vegetables or the like, and which is o a formincluding a lurality of receptacles for allowing a num er of dif- `l0 ferent products tov be cooked simultaneously as well as enabling if desired the heating rocess to be accomplished by employing the ame of a single gas burner or a single heat opening of a stove in order to save the consum tion of fuel and to permit a variety of oodproducts to be cooked as occasion requires. in places Where the spaces for such work are comparatively limited.

' The invention consists essentially of a pot cfa suitable size and shape, and Within the rpot are a pluralit of removable heatable receptacles for hol ing various vegetables and other food products to vbe cooked. .These receptacles may be orificed or free from aperf tures in order to permit the cooking process of the products to be accomplished by boiling stewing or steaming. The receptacles have each an outer wall of'such a shape that the outer walls of all the receptacles conform tothe shape ,ofthe side Wall of the body of the pot and each receptacle has angular inner walls of such sizes and shapes that the inner Walls of all the receptacles are in proximity with. their corners which are opposite to the outer walls being positionedl adjacent each other at the center of the interior of the body of the pot so that the products in all of the receptacles may be cooked simultaneously over a single flame.

A further object of the invention is to j provide a cooking utensil of a simple, eilicient and durable construction which may be made in appropriate sizes and shapes.

With these and other objects in view, the

5 invention will be hereinafter more fully described with reference to the accompanying drawin forming apart of this specification in whic similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,

5 and will then be pointed out in the 4claims at the end of the description.

In the drawing,.Figure 1 is an elevation, partly broken away, of one form of cooking utensil embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a top plan, partly fragmentary,

. processes of cooking edibles,though the form l the'mouth or entrance of the body 11 may be .j

of the utensil with the'cover lof the pot reY moved. n

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through a slightly modified form of one of the recept tacles used in the utensil. v

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of anothermodified forni of one of the receptacles used in the utensil, and j n Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. 4.

The utensil has a container or pot, as 10, which may be of any suitable sizeA and' shape of the ordinary type `commonly used for boiling, stewing or heating purposes 'in' the 'of the pot illustrated has a hollow body 1l with a cylindrical .side Wall 12, bottom 13, and a handle, as 14, protruding laterally from an upper part of the side wall. On. 7

5 a removable cover, as 15. n

Interiorly of the body 11 of the pot are a number, preferably four receptacles, vas 16, for holding edibles, such as vegetables, v vcereals and `other food products forbeing cooked, .and all of these receptacles are of similar shapes and sizes. Each of the receptacles 16 is made of metal or enameled metal adaptedto withstand heat, and each receptacle has an outer wall 17, angular inner walls 18, 19 which extend from the side edgesl `of theouter wall to a corner or intersecting ancle on a line with the kcenter of the outer wa l. The lower ends of the outer and inner walls of each receptacle is closed by a bottom wall 20. The outer walls of all of the receptacles are curved to conform with the curvature circumferentially of the wall 12 of the body 11 of the pot,l and the outer wall of each of the receptacles is of a width some-` what less than one-fourth the circumference of the side wall of the body of the ot. The inner walls are 'preferably dispose at right angles to the outer walls, and each of the receptacles is, therefore, of approximately a segmental shape. The rece tacles are also of such sizes that Itheir si e walls are in closely spaced parallel relation when their corners which are opposite to the outer walls being positioned adjacent to or closely spaced to each other at the lcenter of the interior of4 the body of the ot. The receptacles 16 are somewhat less tiian the height of the side wall of the body of the pot, and extending downwardly from the underside of the bot- 110 'ceptacles tom 20 at the corners of each receptacle may be three feet, as 21. The feet'of all ofthe receptacles" are of lengths for elevating the receptacles above the bottom of the body ofthe pot and so thatthe upper edges of the walls of the receptacles are preferably on av level with the upper e'dge of the side wall 12 of the body of the pot.

In Figs. 1 and 2 forms of the receptacles 16 are` shown having iinperforate walls, while the form shown in Fig. 3 is provided with the outer wall and innerwalls having orifices 22, and -in Figs. 4 and 5 the walls and bottom are made of woven wire, to provide interstices, as 23, in the re- The receptaclesy are made of sizes "positioned in the body of the pot in space relation and the feet 21 being provided to elevate the receptacles so that water may be used in the body of the pot as well as in the form-of the receptacles, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or water placed in the body ot' the pot will How into the forms of oritice'd and intersticed. receptacles shownin Figs. 3, 4, 5, in` ordervto allow vvarious food products to be cooked according to different processes. On each of the receptacles 16 may be handle 24 for allowing the receptacles' to be conveniently arranged within and removed from the body of the pot. Each of the handles 24 of the forms of the -receptacles shown )in Figs. 1, 2, 3 has an arched portion, as25, integrally formedwith and extending for bein upwardly above and overhanging the outer wall 17 of its respective receptacle. The arched portion 25 of the handle of each of the receptacles is curved to conform with the cnrvaturesof the outer wall and with the side wall 12 of the body of the ot, and this arched portion of the handle o each receptacle is of sufficient Width so that the arched portionsof all the handles are disposed in r straddling positions uponsthe upper edge of n the body ofthe pot. The handle of each receptacle has a part, as 26, which protrudes downwardly'of the exterior of the outer wall ofthe receptacle, and each handle terminates with an extension or apertured lug, as 27, which protrudes angularly in a lateral direction from the part 26 and from the outer Wall lof its receptacle. In the form of the intersticed receptacle 1G illustrated in Figs.

4 and 5 the arched portion 25 of the handle is soldered or welded, as at 28, or otherwise fastened to the upper p'art of the outer wall l17' for being disposed similarly to vthe posisuch changes as fairly fall within thescope thereof. p

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In combination, a container, a triangular shaped receptacle adapted to be osition-ed 'within the said container, the wal s of said *receptacle being nnperforate and the front wall curved toconform to thesha'pe of the container, the top edges of the said Walls being reenforced, an arched memberfoverlying and rigidly attached to the topv edge of the 'said front curved wall, said arched member havinga depending extension and an ioutwardly .extended handle portion formed integral therewith protruding considerably beyond the Wall of the said container. y

This specification signed and witnessed this 17th day of September, A. D. 1925.`

CATHERINE F. CULLEN.

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